A Bright Red Scream
I am not a cutter. I do not self-mutilate. However, self-destructive behavior while not something I engage in to the extreme is not completely foreign to me…
As Your Desire Me
"Those who have few, if any, memories of childhood may have been victims of psychological abuse. Claimed to be the most damaging of all abuses, most c…
Borderline Personality Disorder
This handbook by Arthur Freeman and Gina Fusco offers advice to clinicians working with patients who have mild to moderate symptoms associated with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). The purpose of this book is to help clinicians to take control of th…
Borderline Personality Disorder
This handbook by Arthur Freeman and Gina Fusco offers advice to clinicians working with patients who have mild to moderate symptoms associated with Borde…
Children of the Self-Absorbed
There are varying degrees of narcissism and although most can be viewed as healthy, there is a type of narcissism that when present in a parent can have…
Coping with Infuriating, Mean, Critical People
I was attracted to the book, as any potential reader might be, because of its catchy title: Coping with Infuriating, Mean, Critical People -- Oh…
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Dangerous and Severe Personality Disorder
Bowers is a psychiatric nurse, and the view he expresses is favorably coloured by this perspective, given that in his environs, it is nursing that must b…
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Enough About You
When I requested this book to review I neglected to notice the author's name, missing an important clue. This book is a spoof on narcissism, or at least a spoof on what someone thinks narcissism is. This was unfortunate for me, because I had hoped for a r…
Enough About You
When I requested this book to review I neglected to notice the author's name, missing an important clue. This book is a spoof on narcissism, or at least…
Fatal Flaws
Although I don't share some of its theoretical constraints, such as some of its psychoanalytic interpretations of mental disturbs, admittedly this book i…
Get Me Out of Here
This is a book which is initially quite distressing to read but is so beautifully written that one is forced to persevere. One's perseverance is rewa…
Handbook of Personality Disorders
At close to six hundred pages€”counting the foreword, preface, and two indexes€”this is a very hefty book. As suggested by the subtitle, "Theory an…
Handbook of Psychopathy
Psychopathy is a fuzzy concept with an extensive pedigree in clinical psychology, psychiatry, and medicine. The Handbook of Psychopathy is the fi…
High Risk
"Trust Bandits" permeate our society. They are people without a conscience, and they hurt--sometimes kill--others without remorse. When young, they are c…
I Hate You-Don't Leave Me
This slim book is a useful guide for people who want to learn about Borderline Personalty Disorder. It gives some guidelines for telling whether you or some…
Let Me Make It Good
Let Me Make It Good is to my knowledge the only first-person account of borderline personality disorder in or out of print. While estimates of the…
Lost in the Mirror
There are not many popular or self-help books on personality disorders (I…
Personality Disorder: Temperament or Trauma?
The title is rather misleading: this is not a book that discusses or makes any headway on the subject of the aetiology or nosology of personality disorde…
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Personality Disorders in Modern Life
Millon, of the Mutiaxial Inventory fame, has said of personalities that they are like impressionist paintings in that each is at a distance easily access…
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Practical Management of Personality Disorder
Personality disorder is one of the problems in mental health which, given its ubiquity in a specialist clinical setting, can almost be forgotten. There is an old rule of thumb that one learns when starting clinical training in psychiatry as to the p…
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Practical Management of Personality Disorder
Personality disorder is one of the problems in mental health which, given its ubiquity in a specialist clinical setting, can almost be forgotten. T…
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Psychotherapy for Personality Disorders
Psychotherapy for Personality Disorders is a slim volume put out by the American Psychiatric Press as part of its Review of Psychiatry series.…
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Skin Game
Some people cut their own skin. They take a sharp knife or a razor blade and make an incision. It causes pain and some scarring. Often they keep on doin…
The Angry Heart
This book contains a great deal of useful ideas and information. Based on the author's BPD treatment approach, called "Mentorship Self-Help Therapy", th…
The Siren's Dance
This is a psychology book that reads like a novel and a fairly raunchy novel at that! 'Anthony Walker' is a pseudonym for a real-life psychiatrist who as…
The Survivor Personality
This remains one of the best books I have ever read and it is an appropriate read for anyone. In this updated edition of the book, the author discusses how…
Through the Looking Glass
Dana Becker's book Through the Looking Glass is one of the relatively few books on borderline personality disorder. It's an impressive w…
Understanding and Treating Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder is a very depressing topic. As the authors of this book point out, research on BPD is about twenty to thirty years behin…
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Understanding the Borderline Mother
"Degradation by someone who claims to love you is qualitatively different than degradation by a stranger," says Christine Ann Lawson, Ph.D., in her book…
Why Is It Always About You?
A fine text by Sandy Hotchkiss concerning narcissistic people everywhere, Why Is It Always About You?, would better be titled, thinks this re…
Without Conscience
Here’s a book that shows why philosophers need to be studying psychiatry: the author, Robert Hare, takes a high moral tone but avoids the most difficul…
Women Living with Self-Injury
Scars. We all accumulate them, our proof that we have been here on this earth and have not been idle. A knife slips, a cut, a scar. A pregnant woman, a b…